Comodo, the world's biggest certificate authority (CA), has disabled a faulty mechanism that would have allowed someone to request and successfully receive digital certificates for domains they don't own.
Florian Heinz and Martin Kluge of Vautron Rechenzentrum AG discovered the issue in September and contacted Comodo, who answered by disabling the buggy component.
The problem, as the two explain in an editorial for German tech news site...
Comodo Disables Faulty OCR
Florian Heinz and Martin Kluge of Vautron Rechenzentrum AG discovered the issue in September and contacted Comodo, who answered by disabling the buggy component.
The problem, as the two explain in an editorial for German tech news site...
Comodo Disables Faulty OCR